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Light, December 2016

This is a “Shoot, I forgot I was doing a display and now I have to put one together at the last minute” kinda deal. Nonetheless, it’s one that I’m pretty of proud of. It was during a time that felt particularly hopeless and dark to me, and I could only imagine that others were feeling the same. I also didn’t want to do a traditional holiday display, but a quote from a Doctor Who Christmas special seemed relevant to me at the time: “On every world, wherever people are, everybody stops, and turns, and hugs, as if to say, ‘Well done, well done everyone! We’re halfway out of the dark.'” I wanted to feel like I was halfway out of the dark, and I wanted everyone who might be feeling as hopeless as me to look forward to the light as well.

The books on this display were a combination of light science, spirituality, cultivating hopefulness, and light and color in art.

Please feel free to remix/reinvigorate/reuse these materials, I would love to see pictures if you do!